Speaker 1: Right, I've been listening to talkback. I found some more
Speaker 1: gold for you, Mitch.
Speaker 2: I love this is my one of my favorite segments
Speaker 2: and one of the listener's favorite segments too, that all
Speaker 2: rave about it.
Speaker 1: We've done the John Laws Special in the past, and
Speaker 1: this time it's like late night, middle of the night
Speaker 1: talkback radio.
Speaker 2: This is my time slot.
Speaker 3: This is my weekend. Oh no, even more graveyard shift.
Speaker 2: So the listenership is down Monday to Friday. That you
Speaker 2: get to the weekends, you're talking to two people on it.
Speaker 2: Cat shit.
Speaker 1: So the idea of talkback things is I bring you
Speaker 1: the bits of gold that I hear, and then you
Speaker 1: try and learn from it. You try and take it
Speaker 1: on board in your radio presenting in your FM job.
Speaker 3: Very different, of course, very different.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, one of my favorite things to do when I'm
Speaker 1: at home back in the country is listen to the
Speaker 1: first ever radio station that I worked at, oh, which
Speaker 1: is fourteen oh four to two pick in Park.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: The breakfast show was a budge right, beautiful broadcast.
Speaker 3: No, I used to work there.
Speaker 1: I would do one day a week there instead of
Speaker 1: going to school on a Friday with my favorite thing.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So a while ago. Last time I was at home.
Speaker 1: In fact, I was driving late at night on a Saturday,
Speaker 1: and I heard something go to where That is literally
Speaker 1: my worst nightmare, even though I'm not a radio announcer, like,
Speaker 1: I've had equally fucked up dreams. Is this listener sent
Speaker 1: in about being caught in this scenario?
Speaker 2: Yes, me too, I have.
Speaker 3: So you're familiar with timing out?
Speaker 2: Oh the bane of my existence? Right.
Speaker 1: So a lot of talkback radio stations they have the
Speaker 1: news start at the top of the hour, and it's
Speaker 1: up to the host whoever's pushing the buttons to make
Speaker 1: sure that they feel the exact amount of seconds so
Speaker 1: that it sounds smooth when the news start.
Speaker 2: And AM stations take it seriously like here a kiss,
Speaker 2: the news can play at five past six, like no one,
Speaker 2: no one, No one is listening to kiss for the news.
Speaker 2: But a lot of older people rely on AM radio
Speaker 2: as the source of news and they want it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, they want on the dot. They've got to
Speaker 1: get that. So the presenters have to get the maths right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So so the hour ends it I don't know,
Speaker 2: five point fifty four, then you have to go, shit,
Speaker 2: I need to feel But it's never five fifty four,
Speaker 2: it's five to fifty four and thirty nine seconds. Yes,
Speaker 2: then you've got to fill five it's and thirty Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, I know. I've got to fill that exact second.
Speaker 3: Don't You have to time out a bit at well?
Speaker 2: And I have to time out every night because I'm
Speaker 2: a national show, so I airn multiple markets, so I
Speaker 2: have to make sure Sydney all the Kiss stations, whether
Speaker 2: it be Kiss Melbourne and Kiss Sydney and get this.
Speaker 2: This is a mind fuck. And at eight fifty nine
Speaker 2: oh one okay and point one and one of second.
Speaker 2: The problem is I'm eight seconds delayed, so I have
Speaker 2: to I have to, I know, I know. So when
Speaker 2: I broadcast, it's actually eight seconds after it actually goes
Speaker 2: to air, so I need to account for missing. It's
Speaker 2: a mind fuck. Yeah, I actually I have to time
Speaker 2: out at nine oh one thirty. It's just too much.
Speaker 3: Well, when I heard this, it was Carter Edwards, the
Speaker 3: talk back host.
Speaker 1: Right, it was ten fifty seven PM, so he had
Speaker 1: exactly three minutes to fill before the news started at
Speaker 1: eleven on the dot, and so he had to stop
Speaker 1: talking at what ten fifty nine and fifty nine seconds.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: So he had a caller on the line, Oh risky move.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I'm imagining that he's thinking, a lot of
Speaker 1: the time, you will hear on talk back to like,
Speaker 1: so we've got to get to the news.
Speaker 3: Sorry, night, You've got to get to the news.
Speaker 1: So I'm imagining he's thinking, great, perfect, I'll chat to
Speaker 1: this caller for three minutes, then go to the news.
Speaker 1: But then he had to cut the call short because
Speaker 1: it's something they said, and so then he was just
Speaker 1: stuck with no la. So, firstly, here's how the call went.
Speaker 5: I do apologize.
Speaker 3: That's the.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Look, I'm just calling. I spoke to the
Speaker 4: young man and he asked me what I wanted to
Speaker 4: talk about, and yeah, I did say relationships. And I
Speaker 4: suppose it does start with relationships a little bit. But
Speaker 4: what it really comes back to is the drought. My partner.
Speaker 4: I'm at home at the moment by myself because last
Speaker 4: night my partner cheated on me because the drought has
Speaker 4: just been so hard on him. Matt, if you're.
Speaker 2: Out there, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Speaker 5: You you cannot mentioned names, dell.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: People will recognize your voice, and people will recognize something
Speaker 5: about you and possibly could be a huge problem. Can
Speaker 5: you just cut to the chase, please, Kiara and tell
Speaker 5: us what you're going to. Basically, the point that you're trying.
Speaker 4: To make, well, the point that I'm trying to make
Speaker 4: is this bloody drought is really screwingever on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can understand. Sorry, Belle, I'm sorry, but I
Speaker 5: can't take it any further.
Speaker 1: Firstly, we must acknowledge what the fuck? How does the
Speaker 1: drought make it?
Speaker 2: Okay? I know, listen, I know my goyfriend slaughtered that girl,
Speaker 2: but the drought so hard on him.
Speaker 1: Isn't a double thy one of the ten commandments? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you could just get away with all of them
Speaker 1: just because it's the drought. Oh, he's doing a double
Speaker 1: stint for murder, but he's the drought. You must understand, Jesus.
Speaker 2: I know you're busy spitting in people's eyes and heart
Speaker 2: and sees, but hey, George over here, don't slaughter him.
Speaker 2: The drown them drown bullshit. He's like, don't don't defame anyone.
Speaker 2: Go again, and she says it was the drought. He
Speaker 2: cut her off, like droughts someone's name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really not sure why he cut her off,
Speaker 1: but that for one reason or another he did, and
Speaker 1: so he was left with Yeah, if I were him,
Speaker 1: I would just be thinking, fuck me dead. I've got
Speaker 1: all this time to fill, So do I play a song?
Speaker 3: Not enough time?
Speaker 1: It's like maybe two minutes. And I know that from
Speaker 1: working at two p K all of that network, their
Speaker 1: ad breaks are set to four minutes. You can't adjust them,
Speaker 1: so it's not enough time to play ads, not enough
Speaker 1: time to play a song.
Speaker 3: There's no callers. He's just like, I just got.
Speaker 2: To fill it to feel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just kind of flailed and he kind of
Speaker 1: just kept talking as though she was still there. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I'll let you have a listen. So here's how he
Speaker 1: coped with having to feel all that time.
Speaker 5: I do apologize, Kia, but from my point of view,
Speaker 5: from my end, it could go anywhere and light a
Speaker 5: fire anywhere, So I just can't take it any further. Sweetheart. Sorry,
Speaker 5: if you want to give us a call sometime and
Speaker 5: just be a little more aware of how to be
Speaker 5: radio friendly, I guess is the words to use. My
Speaker 5: humblest apologies because I understand that you would like to.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I'll do, Kiara, if you like,
Speaker 5: I will call you on the way home if we can,
Speaker 5: If you wouldn't mind, if you would be kind enough
Speaker 5: to give my my producer his name is Zach, your
Speaker 5: phone number and it's if it wouldn't be a problem,
Speaker 5: that I could call you after midnight, which is when
Speaker 5: I on my way home, and I could get the
Speaker 5: basic story and maybe we can take it from there,
Speaker 5: from the from the point of what it is that
Speaker 5: you are trying to to come to with your your story.
Speaker 5: Uh huh so oh, I see, okay, let me let
Speaker 5: me then put my put that on hold, put that
Speaker 5: number on hold, and see if we can pick it up,
Speaker 5: because if I can, I will reh what can I say?
Speaker 5: I can probably Yeah, I'd like to talk to you
Speaker 5: off here, if that's it all possible, because I don't
Speaker 5: want to be appearing to be totally unkind to you.
Speaker 5: I've done it before, so please don't think that, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it hasn't happened before. So I'll call you after midnight
Speaker 5: if you would so allow it to happen, because I
Speaker 5: can hear that you are you are in need of assistance.
Speaker 5: I said, I can help you with that.
Speaker 2: Apologies, that's the news.
Speaker 3: It's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: I was sitting there in my car. Imagine me driving
Speaker 1: on this wide open road. This is when I was
Speaker 1: back home in the country, and I'm just going, fuck cart,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling you, bro.
Speaker 3: I would not want to be in that situation. He
Speaker 3: just had nothing to say or do.
Speaker 2: That's a car crash. Also, him noticing that she's nearly saying,
Speaker 2: I'll give you my number. You called me such How
Speaker 2: many times did he reiterate the fact that he just
Speaker 2: wanted to hear her side of the story off.
Speaker 3: The yet I don't know who.
Speaker 1: I don't know how old that chick that called through
Speaker 1: it was, but he Carter is very popular with the elderly.
Speaker 1: He like goes on to like RSL's right, and he's
Speaker 1: quite popular.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, as cringe as that was, I think
Speaker 2: I could do it. I think I could do it
Speaker 2: better than Carter.
Speaker 1: I mean what else is there to say, though, Like
Speaker 1: if you can't play a song or play ads, like
Speaker 1: what do you do? You just kept repeating himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard, it is hard. But I think as
Speaker 2: a radio anoun said that, you know, that's the job.
Speaker 2: I do it every night. I don't know half the
Speaker 2: stuff I'm talking.
Speaker 1: But also, like I was thinking to myself, wouldn't you
Speaker 1: just google something and start reading the news or something like,
Speaker 1: you know, here's something online. But anyway, I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you've come in with this cocky attitude and you're so
Speaker 1: confident because the challenge today, the talk back to challenge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, there is. There always is, idiot, If you
Speaker 3: don't just listen.
Speaker 1: To talk about it, then you go, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: I always try and make you do something to learn
Speaker 1: from it. So over there, I've put a three minute
Speaker 1: countdown and after that three minutes it's got little radio static.
Speaker 3: The whole time is to give it the effect God,
Speaker 3: you're good yea. So after that three minutes, the news
Speaker 3: theme kicks in.
Speaker 1: So I want you to imagine that your carter and
Speaker 1: you've been thrown in that situation and you have to
Speaker 1: fill three minutes.
Speaker 2: So am I doing that scenario with that caller?
Speaker 1: No, not necessarily you would the call has just hung
Speaker 1: up up to you, and just how you'd feel that
Speaker 1: three minutes. And I don't mean an impression of carter,
Speaker 1: I mean as you like imagine you it happens to
Speaker 1: you on kids, You've got three minutes to film, just
Speaker 1: say all your sound effects have died.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is full and you can't.
Speaker 3: Bring in me in Jenna. You're pretending you're alone like him.
Speaker 2: Oh God, this is stuff.
Speaker 1: This could happen though you're responsible for timing out. This
Speaker 1: could happen to you.
Speaker 3: You never know.
Speaker 2: This actually happens to me every night when I time
Speaker 2: out my show. But I just play What's New pussy Cat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you play like end credits music to in Leeway.
Speaker 3: You could play it for twenty seconds, you could play
Speaker 3: it for two.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm a minute under and I'll go, well, people
Speaker 2: are getting a minute of What's New pussy Cat.
Speaker 1: I would do the same thing if you use myself
Speaker 1: that like window Leeway.
Speaker 3: But Carter he had silence to feel, So that's what
Speaker 3: you've got.
Speaker 2: I'm going to just put myself. I'm going to be
Speaker 2: mitron Kess, but I'm going to do the same scenario.
Speaker 2: So I have at least something's a lot to how
Speaker 2: hold on to?
Speaker 1: Ready, So there's a lady Garguy's going to count you in.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's see how you go all right, thank you
Speaker 2: for Thank you Bernie for calling through. Top ten bumpcakes
Speaker 2: for your Easter Barak. I'll just rehash the top ten
Speaker 2: bunkcakes Vanilla Vanilla.
Speaker 1: Hang on, this is what you would actually do, chocolate.
Speaker 1: You don't actually have this information.
Speaker 2: Out I'm Philly.
Speaker 1: No, you can't just make up fiction on radio because
Speaker 1: that's just lies shit.
Speaker 2: So you can literally have nothing to talk about.
Speaker 3: Well, you'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, if you are listening for the news bulletins,
Speaker 2: we'll get there in moments. How many moments? Well, keep
Speaker 2: listening to find out what a show it's been. The
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Speaker 2: one three, it could be ten, it could be sixty five,
Speaker 2: thirteen one oh sixty five. Call us up. We're live
Speaker 2: until until we hit twelve, until that old clock hits
Speaker 2: the china, until we the brass is knocked a show.
Speaker 2: It's been a show that was great, a show that
Speaker 2: I will remember for all of time. It'll go down
Speaker 2: in history. Is one of the best shows. And I
Speaker 2: thought I might, speaking of best shows, give you a
Speaker 2: countdown the best sitcom shows. The eighties. The list starts now.
Speaker 2: He's been prepared for weeks. It's a segment that everyone
Speaker 2: is excited for. Cheers, We can't forget Cheers. Runtime nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty two to nineteen ninety three. Once again, that could
Speaker 2: also be one hundred and ninety eight and two or
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety nine. And the three are the
Speaker 2: Golden Girls. Oh, my wife Lucy loves the Golden Girls.
Speaker 2: Runtime one hundred ninety eight five, one hundred ninety nine
Speaker 2: two thirteen one O sixty five. If you have contribution
Speaker 2: to the game Growing Pains, I'll tell you what my
Speaker 2: nephew going through the worst growing pains is. How far
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Speaker 2: and ninety eight seven one hundred and ninety niney five.
Speaker 2: The sun Blake was born in nineteen ninety five. I
Speaker 2: remember it like it was yesterday. Lucy screaming with pain,
Speaker 2: and I said, and I said to that nurse, I said,
Speaker 2: we were at the local district hospital. One nurse. It's
Speaker 2: also the receptionist. I said, you look after her, and
Speaker 2: he had him. He was premature, but we made it.
Speaker 2: Family ties one hundred ninety eight two, one hundred ninety
Speaker 2: eight nine. Now let's go to the news with Esmarella Jones.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I love how you still managed to go
Speaker 1: a little bit over and talked everything.
Speaker 3: Then I made it. Now, are you shitting yourself? Or
Speaker 3: you just like whatever?
Speaker 2: I shout myself after I got to the Golden Girls,
Speaker 2: because how many more shows can you rattle on about?
Speaker 3: Why did you go?
Speaker 1: Shows of the eighties? Because once again, I don't think
Speaker 1: you understood the challenge. Why, I said, Imagine it's you
Speaker 1: and you're in that scenario. You don't have a wife, Lucy,
Speaker 1: you don't have a son, Blake where.
Speaker 3: That shit comes from?
Speaker 2: The googled?
Speaker 3: I googled yeah, but where does that bring in your family?
Speaker 2: That was the content. No, that was the fictional character
Speaker 2: that I create.
Speaker 3: No, I said, imagine you're you. Do you want to
Speaker 3: try and you're stuck on air?
Speaker 2: Do you want to try it?
Speaker 3: Not at all?
Speaker 2: This is for you to have to do it again.
Speaker 3: No, you don't do it again. I'm just selling it.
Speaker 3: You fail, literally a fail, But you have to pretend what.
Speaker 1: You would do in that scenario and not what did
Speaker 1: you have a character name in mind, and you did that, Bruce,
Speaker 1: not what.
Speaker 3: Bruce would do.
Speaker 2: I want to do it again. Then I want to win. God.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've got to do it again.
Speaker 1: Anyone that's made it this long in the show, clearly
Speaker 1: they've got time in their hands. So I guess we
Speaker 1: can waste some more time. You've got three minutes to go. People,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 2: Ava Max on the show next Friday. I love Ava.
Speaker 2: If you know Lady Gaga, you know that people often
Speaker 2: get mad at the comparison. I've made it on the
Speaker 2: show before. I have a good friend Mitchell Coombs hates
Speaker 2: it when I could pay a Max and Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2: I say, Ava Max is the next Lady Gaga, and
Speaker 2: he says, you're the next fall. We laugh. Coming up
Speaker 2: on the Tuesday show, Charlie XCX new music out and
Speaker 2: she's in isolation. A lot of people are in isolation
Speaker 2: because of COVID. That's what it's doing to people. It's
Speaker 2: putting us in isolation. Hey, you like music, God do it?
Speaker 2: This is hard, that's hard.
Speaker 3: How long do you talk for again?
Speaker 2: I talked anywhere from like forty seconds to five minutes.
Speaker 3: Why was that such atrocle so?
Speaker 2: I don't know one's to talk to. I can't play
Speaker 2: sound effects, isn't it right?
Speaker 3: But do you like music?
Speaker 2: Else? To tell?
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